I'm glad you're impressed, and gladder still you like our avatar. As long as you keep in mind who originally made it, laboriously and by hand, in the Gimp. Yes, I calculated the exact angles I'd need to rotate the image in, the corresponding X and Y offsets, and did it all by hand.

I think there are more appropriate places to discuss this kind of thing, dwks.

Amazingly, I did this one manually in "The GIMP" as well. You should see what's still to come...well, I guess that'll be later.

Just one last note: GCC doesn't optimize as well on SPARC as it does on i386, but it still does the loop-access-to-pointer optimization. (I picked SPARC because I know it's tricky to optimize for.)

Anyway, talk to you later.

dwk

Seek and ye shall find. quaere et invenies.

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell

dwks tells us it is "kompare" which I will hazard a guess that it's a KDE app. Being addicted to fvwm2*, I may have trouble getting that to work because of all the excessive integration (dbus, etc.) Which might be just as well, my little mind should stay away from looking too hard at the asm side of things.

As I said, it's kompare, which is indeed a really nice diff tool for KDE. (That's the KDE 3 version of it.) It's my favourite diff tool.

You may be addicted to fvwm2*, but just wait until KDE 4's KDevelop becomes stable, and try it (and khexedit and kompare and kdiff3). You may have to reconsider your addiction.

dwk

Seek and ye shall find. quaere et invenies.

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- Alan Perlis
"Testing can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence." -- Edsger Dijkstra
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." -- John Powell